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the problem with wind and solar is not 99% uptime requirement. it's always sunny somewhere or windy. it's not like at one point in time the whole world will be
by merb 7y ago
the problem with wind and solar is not 99% uptime requirement. it's always sunny somewhere or windy. it's not like at one point in time the whole world will be covered in clouds with no wind at all.
the problem is distribution the power over long distances.
- temac 7y agoThat's kind of the "same" problem given we are not going to ditribute power of solar provenance by traveling half the earth. Likewise for wind: the distance are enormous to get reasonable wind diversity. So in practice it is not sure it is even possible in some (most?) regions of the world.
- merb 7y agowell it would be, if countries would see a need other than making money. but unfortunatly energy is something where everybody wants to make some money. also regions which are very unstable have a lot of sunpower. it's not easy to build reliable sunpower plants there. and there is no grid available that spans the whole world. that would take a huge amount of work for all the countries, but countries do not think global, so it would be a pita to get everybody on the same feets.